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Meta freezes AI data work after breach puts training secrets at risk

Meta has indefinitely paused work with $10B AI data startup Mercor after a LiteLLM supply chain attack exposed training ...

AI Trainer Mercor Offers to Pay People for Prior Work—Work Employers Might Own

AI models from the tech giants constantly need new training data. This $10 billion startup is on the hunt for fresh resources ...

Remotasks employs you to train AI. But the pay is peanuts and in the end you’re expendable.

Freelancers who sign up with the site complain about doing hours of training only to find an empty work queue.

AI training companies are offering up to $150 an hour to get Wall Streeters to train their models

AI needs help to become a passable investment banker. Here's how much companies are paying those who train it.
InfoWorld

Final training of AI models is a fraction of their total cost

Those poor AI companies are paying for a lot more than just training runs, explaining their sensitivity to threats such as ...
CNBC

34-year-old entrepreneur earns $200 an hour from side gig training AI models: 'Intellectual curiosity drew me in'

Utkarsh Amitabh says he definitely wasn't in the market for a new job in January 2025, when data labeling startup micro1 approached him about joining its network of human experts who help companies ...
IPWatchdog

CLEAR Act Would Establish Notice Requirements for Copyrighted Works in AI Training Data

“[O]ur bipartisan legislation will help build public trust for emerging technologies and foster the best of American creativity.” – Senator John Curtis The use of copyrighted works to train generative ...